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| Thread ID: 62238 | 2005-10-01 05:49:00 | I want to learn autocad | JimboJones (1680) | PC World Chat |
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| 392432 | 2005-10-01 05:49:00 | I'm not completely clueless on technical drawings programs . I did a 4, 6 hour day taster course at AUT on SolidWorks . Any way, I showed my boss at work what I did with SolidWorks, he got impressed, thinks I'm capable, then he asked me to learn autocad, so I can do some work for him . He was actually paying me to learn autocad for a 1 or so hours a day when I finished my other work . Hes gave me a book that teaches autocad, but I found it ****, so I found a beginers tutorial on the web . . . it taught how to plot co-ordinates to draw lines etc, and that was it . Anyway, that happend in term 3 holidays I think . . . And the other day, he wanted me to make some edits to a drawing . . . I completely forgotten what I learned on autocad, I felt disapointed . . . my boss probally did too(as he was paying me to learn) . . . Yeah, so . . autocad is a program that will probally be useful for me to know . . . I want to revise what I've learned and learn more :p . Any one want to recommend books or tutorials on the web? |
JimboJones (1680) | ||
| 392433 | 2005-10-01 13:17:00 | Do you know about this? The program is free and will function as a Cad program for you to do your own thing. Annoyingly it will try to update its price list but you can just ignore it or allow it to do so, it doesn't take long. It teaches you about CAD. http://www.emachineshop.com/ also you may like this as well: www.cadsoft.de |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 392434 | 2005-10-02 01:09:00 | I suspect that the only way to stay capable at using AutoCAD would be to use it all the time. If you don't use it, you lose it. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 392435 | 2005-10-02 02:52:00 | There's a heap of stuff on Ebay: search.ebay.com F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=autocad&category0= |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 392436 | 2006-01-22 05:06:00 | hello, this is my first time here. :) | mini_magget03 (418) | ||
| 392437 | 2006-01-22 05:15:00 | hello, this is my first time here. :) hello first time here |
plod (107) | ||
| 392438 | 2006-01-22 05:28:00 | does anyone know where i can find a CAD tutor or some kind of a CAD course? I've been teaching myself through books and things in the past 12months during school hoildays, and i understand pretty much all the drawing/editing sections, but i feel that there is still alot that i need to learn in order to be fluent in using CAD... | mini_magget03 (418) | ||
| 392439 | 2006-01-22 10:06:00 | Most polytechs have classes in some form of CAD . It's a good way to learn the esentials (?) of the program you're using . I just finished my mechanical engineering degree at Canterbury . CAD was taught but by my final year stuff that I thought was basic, like making systems move, completely amazed my tutors . The best way to learn is to do it yourself . Set yourself a goal . Design something simple like a basic house and build it in CAD . Then create something more complex . Try and find new ways to do things and new features to try . Don't try to rush it and don't expect too much too soon . If you can try and get someone in the industry to look over your work . Even better see if you can get some of their old work and compare how well you do to their work . Once you get good with CAD you can build some amazing stuff and help us engineers conquerer the world . Muahahahahahahahaha . |
joshjnz (7844) | ||
| 392440 | 2006-01-22 19:43:00 | Once you get good with CAD you can build some amazing stuff and help us engineers conquerer the world . Muahahahahahahahaha . Oh oh . . . I am getting bad feelings about the next generation of engineers :eek: Good advice though . Another thing is to try and find someone who is a genius at the application, and then leech their brains . |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 392441 | 2006-01-23 10:10:00 | bahahahhaha, thank you all for the tips. I guess the closest person (who is unfortunately not as much of a genius as I hoped he would be...) would be my dad whos been using CAD for over 10 years now for work projects - he's also an engineer -_-...In the last 10 months or so I've been re-drawing his plan drawings previousely done on CAD and has gained alot of knowledge on my drawing and editing tecniques, as well as improvments on my working speed etc. I guess the crucial Q now is what do i do now? start on 3D modelling on CAD? or more practices?...cause the drawings that I did do were just normal plan drawings and there must be more to CAD... | mini_magget03 (418) | ||
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